Mobile LiDAR vehicle-mounted survey system
Corridor Mapping Technology

Mobile LiDAR Survey for Corridor Mapping

Vehicle, rail and boat-mounted LiDAR scanning built for highways, railways and hill roads — captured once and measured forever. Every scan becomes a permanent, survey-grade 3D record of the corridor, ready for engineering-quality CAD deliverables.

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3,600+ km of corridor scanned every year
Overview

A Permanent 3D Record of the Corridor

A Mobile LiDAR pass leaves behind a lasting digital record of everything along the route — lane widths, sidewalks, building setbacks, drains, signage and pavement condition can all be measured later, straight from the point cloud, without going back to site. We process every scan to survey-grade accuracy and hand over a clean, engineering-ready 3D CAD file.

Because the system rides on a vehicle, rail bogie or boat, it moves at traffic speed while recording x, y and z coordinates continuously — turning kilometres of highway, hill road or rail corridor into a navigable 3D model far faster than a crew walking the same distance with a total station.

The productivity gap is large in practice: a 90 km highway stretch that once took roughly 120 working days to survey conventionally was captured with Mobile LiDAR in about five hours of drive time. Mobile LiDAR also holds an edge over static terrestrial scanning and most airborne systems (short of low-flying drones) when survey-grade positional accuracy matters.

Faster than Total Station/DGPS crews

Denser detail than a conventional survey

Safer — no crew standing in live traffic

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Our Platform

Leica Pegasus: Two Mobile Mapping System

Terrain elevation matters at every stage of building, road and bridge construction, which is why our core platform pairs a calibrated LiDAR head with a 360° camera rig and a full positioning stack — GNSS receiver, IMU and a distance-measuring instrument (DMI) — so every point lands with survey-grade confidence, not just visual accuracy.

10,00,000+

points/second scan rate

360°

horizontal camera field of view

3,600+ km

surveyed every year

GNSS + IMU + DMI

integrated positioning stack

We work every year with Government agencies, construction companies, consulting engineers and road/rail designers who need survey-grade output turned around on schedule.

How We Work

Mobile LiDAR Survey Workflow

01

Ground Control

  • DGPS primary control points
  • RTK / Total Station secondary control
  • Auto Level benchmarking
  • GCPs marked on site
02

Setup & Calibration

  • DGPS static base observation
  • 10-minute static alignment
  • IMU dynamic-run calibration
  • 360° camera colour calibration
03

Data Collection

  • High-speed corridor scanning
  • Shadow areas filled with RTK/handheld LiDAR
  • Bridge & waterway data capture
  • Secure same-day data transfer
04

Processing & Delivery

  • Trajectory adjustment to GCPs
  • Point cloud colourisation
  • LAS-format point cloud export
  • 360° panoramic imagery
Where It's Used

Field of Application

Bridges & Major Structures

Survey and mapping for bridges, ROBs, RUBs, FOBs and other major structures, for both new-build and maintenance projects.

Metro Rail & Rapid Transport

Corridor survey for new metro rail, MRTS and other rapid transport projects using combined LiDAR and photogrammetry.

National Highways

Feasibility, DPR, TOT, construction and as-built survey delivering CAD, point cloud, ortho imagery and 360° imagery.

City & Town Survey

Smart city, town planning, water and sewage, new residential townships, satellite cities, urban development and GIS.

Railway Survey

New line, doubling, sidings and yard survey, railway asset mapping, quantity assessment and final location survey.

Data Processing & GIS

LiDAR point cloud to CAD conversion, photogrammetry processing and line-work services for survey agencies.

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Common Questions

Mobile LiDAR Survey FAQ

LiDAR — Light Detection and Ranging — works by firing pulsed laser light at a surface and timing how long each pulse takes to bounce back. Millions of these timed returns per second build up into a dense "point cloud" that maps the surveyed area in three dimensions in near real time.
A point cloud is the raw output of a laser scan — millions of individual XYZ coordinates, one for every surface the laser touched. Once cleaned up and classified, that cloud becomes a detailed digital model of the site: the denser the points, the finer the detail that survives into the final drawing.
It is fast to capture, extremely dense in the data it returns, and highly accurate. The sensor head can be mounted on a car, train, boat or drone depending on the terrain, and because most of the capture happens from a moving platform, crews spend far less time working in hazardous conditions.
Mobile LiDAR scans close to the ground, which is exactly what highway and railway corridors need. Drone LiDAR flies over terrain a vehicle can't reach — forests, marshland, hill sections — so it tends to be the better fit for green-field alignments, bypasses and re-alignments.
Pricing depends on scope, required accuracy, project size, location and the deliverables you need — as a rough band, expect somewhere between ₹1,000 and ₹12,000 per acre. For linear projects, send us the area of interest as a KML file along with your survey specification and we'll return a free quotation.
Pan-India, including the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, plus completed assignments in Addu (Maldives), Gabon, Brisbane (Australia) and the Gulf. We also take on LiDAR data post-processing work sent to us from overseas.

Ready to Map Your Corridor in 3D?

With Mobile LiDAR, you get more than survey data — you get a competitive edge on schedule and accuracy. Talk to our team about your route and how our precision mapping can drive your project forward.